The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

Wake up and smell the coffee.

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.

Life dances on the moment.

O Lord grant us the grace for sacred rest

So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality.

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.

I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident

The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

Make changes in your life; don't wear the same roads out, start walking on the new paths!

I didn't really like the taste of booze. I liked the effect it did on me. But I can't say I savored a glass full of Chablis Chablis 1932. I drank whatever s - - was in front of me and got me buzzed.